germany election last week, without the disfiguring presence of violence. i understand why you wrote that sentence, mr. clegg, but why put in the safeguards before the election if you guys at facebook didn t think you had a role in potentially inciting folks? just to follow this very closely, what we did in the run-up to the election was put in obviously, it was an exceptional election happening at a time of a pandemic, obviously very stark polarization in this country, put in a number of exceptional measures. it s simply not true to say we lifted those measures immediately. we, in fact, kept the vast majority of them right through to the inauguration, and we kept some in place permanently. we permanently right now don t recommend civic and political groups to people. it s worth remembering what those exceptional measures are like. it s like closing all the highways and roads in a time
he s on a revenge tour right now, right, with the people who voted to impeach him. i think it will be nothing but revenge, retribution, and how he can been fit himself. i think there will be pardons happening. i think there will be very draconian policies that go way too far. i believe if he s re-elected again, it will be a really, really scary time. stephanie grisham, the one-time press secretary for former president donald trump and former chief of staff for the former first lady, thank you for coming on and sharing your perspective with us. thank you for having me. when we come back, i ll talk to a facebook executive about how the company handled the january 6th insurrection. stay with us. tion. stay with us having me. when we come back,
judiciary committee, sheldon whitehouse, of rhode island and former press secretary stephanie grisham on her time in the white house. plus facebook and the whistle-blower. no one truly understands the destructive choices made by facebook except facebook. former facebook employee francis haugen tells congress the company won t make its product safer because profits come first. i m here today because i believe facebook s products harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy. facebook pushes back. what you have here today is a former employee who didn t work on these issues, mischaracterizing documents she stole. i ll talk to facebook vice president nick clegg. and crisis averted, for now. i m glad their brinksmanship didn t work. the senate agrees to raise the debt ceiling until december, chuck schumer won this game of chicken. but republicans rage against mitch mcconnell for letting it happen tonight. we shot ourselves in the foot tonight. we ll revisit
whistle-blower frances haugen told congress in interest of making more money, facebook sed some security safeguards just after the election and it ended up helping to inside the january 6th capitol riot. facebook changed those safety defaults in the run-up to the election because they knew they were dangerous and because they wanted that growth back, they wanted the acceleration of the platform back after the election, they returned to their original defaults. joining me now is facebook s vice president for global affairs, nick clegg. mr. clegg, welcome to meet the press, sir. morning. thank you. i want to get you to respond to that specific quote from ms. haugen. i also want to put something up that you wrote after her initial 60 minutes appearance. she said this is also why the suggestion that is sometimes made that the violent insurrection on january 6 would not have occurred if it weren t for social media is misleading. mature democracies hold elections all the time.